The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-03-31

How by Energy and Industry She Has
Built Up Large Buslnosa.
Down on Chartrcs street there Is .
lou-ish!ng factory. running IN engine
IT eighteen horsepower and employ
ing skirty-sive men, women and boys,
Shat has been established. buils up. and
is now under she sole direction and
supervision of clever, plucky woman.
Ter years ago tins lsdy's husband died,
leaving her utterly unprevidcd for.
with large family of children to sup
port. In Just such desperate circurn-
stances has many mother had to face
tn, world, but the-c are few. unfort-
unatcly. who have thu energetic deter
minat,on OF this little widow.
HeE husband had been 8 box-makcI
employing = number of Northern
hands, from whom his wife had learned
every department of tho trade. little
guessing when she sat up at night to
be'p the girls out IN the work given
them BY the piece that this same knowi-
edge would one day stand her in such
good stead. Hat SO it was, for after
failure In business and long illness
the husband died. lea-ing debt instead
of money to his family.
Something had to be done. she says,
and that done quickly, for there was
not money enough ahead to pay even
the eight dollars rent for the attic in
which they lived. A brave heart and
high courage. that refused to DO
daunted, helped her to decide on turn
ing her knowledge of box-making to
practical account and way upstairs,
in the iat-roofed. crowded garrett she
began her work, making herself every
| variety Of paper box the market de-
mands.
She went around to tho Wholesale
confcctioners, druggists, shoe shops,
millincrs, every business house that
used large quantities of these packing
cases soliciting patronage and meeting
with marked success, being another
grateful woman TO testify to the uni
vcrsal courtesy, kindness and good
will New Orleans people show to the
working classes. So many orders did
she receive that in q few months she
was enabled to double the space occa-
pied and descend one story. Another
year went by, and the trade having
grown to la-ge and fourishing pro-
portions. warranting another increase,
the third story was added, and thin
factory was no longer An experiment.
bot an establishment of reputation
The successful manager travelled for
her house, getting orders from all
parts of Louisiana, and going on
drumming tours through Texas that
always resulted in = large increase
of patrons. A fact of which she
seemed most proud was that when she
once secured customers they were hers
always Two large houses she mem
toned herein the city, that had first
given her work, had never wavered;
she made hundreds Of boxes for them
to-day.
Three years passed, and ut last the
cautious head saw her business guar
anteed. adding the fourth and ground
door to the three others. now too
crowded. Then the exposition came,
with its countless engines for all man
ner of work, and one was found that
would very nearly double the capacity
of her factory. She bought it, had Il
placed, and then felt tho battle had
been fought. a good fight won; for.
thanks to her own untaltering courage
and the help of kind friends. she WAC
mistress Of al establishment Of which
many mon would be proud. To-day
there is no box, from the small dark
blue sample box that fastens with an
elastic to the large dry-goods packing
case, that can not be made by her
workmen. Every variety is to be seen
besped sad stacked on all sides. Hun
dreds Of yellow p.tent-medicine coverA
tall pyramids Of round and square mil
liners boxes, fancy cases for candy.
and big green drawers that hold no.
tons on . shop shell, all can be made
By her employees, most Of them having
grown up in tho bustness.-H O. Times
Democrat